From the Blog

Dec
26
Posted by blogger at 5:43 pm

For all of you who have been following our beloved Nate‘s sentiments and analyses (a.k.a. all you Free Subscribers to StatsTrade Free Newsletter), we’ve got some sad news today. Nate would like to take a short leave — to hiberNate, if you will. He has been working really hard during 2012 and was kind enough [...]

Jul
10

A short update: Our focus is and has always been on the core research framework behind StatsTrade’s Insights and Robot-Analysts. Unfortunately, most of our research work cannot be shared here. You should expect less and less posts in this blog in the near future. In addition, our beloved Nate is also thinking about some Hibernation [...]

Jun
20
Posted by statstrade at 2:50 pm

Thanks to Google, we are able to easily visualize data in many interesting ways. We at StatsTrade strongly believe in the power of data visualization (together with dimension reduction techniques, or other mapping methods). And so we wished to take some time and share with you a simple possible visualization. We took the S&P500 companies, [...]

May
08
Posted by statstrade at 2:31 pm

Towards Facebook’s IPO, we collected some facts, numbers, opinions and gossip from all over the web into one short post. Kind of an executive summary just for you, so we hope you’ll enjoy it. Also, to celebrate the event, we at StatsTrade conducted our own study, asking people how they believe the Facebook stock will [...]

Recently, an online survey in skyscanner.net has aggregated the feedback of about 1200 visitors regarding their experiences abroad. Here’s a link to the original article (also here, here and here), where the results are summarized in the form of a list of the “rudest” nations for travelers: France is ranked 1st, Russia 2nd, and the [...]

Mar
26
Posted by blogger at 11:23 am

Almost half a year ago (October 29th, 2011), a well-known Israeli finance site has published an article demonstrating the use of stocks screening: You choose some fundamental and/or technical parameters, and remain with the stocks that satisfy your screening conditions. Here is the link to the article (in Hebrew), where the author demonstrated the screening [...]

Mar
25
Posted by blogger at 10:07 am

“War is the continuation of politics by other means”, said Carl von Clausewitz. That’s a nice quote, but we are no politicians. In our eyes, war is an opportunity to make profit, or at least to hedge your portfolio against. “Which stocks should I buy if I believe that there’s a war coming?” is a [...]

Feb
15
Posted by blogger at 1:02 am

Valentine’s day. Feb. 14, 2012. ALVR (Alvarion Ltd.) has plunged today by 9.45%. We sure hope this one didn’t hit you hard. Well, if you are getting our Free Newsletter, you couldn’t have possibly missed the warning signs. Over the past few days, there has been a complete and remarkable agreement between two different algorithms, two different approaches, [...]